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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
8
A French town based life policy called La Fourmi pays heirs $1,000 if death before 38, then $510 at 51, with $18 monthly premium. The plan argues young deaths burden heirs, while older ages enable self-sufficiency. The article also notes iron ships weigh 27 percent less than wooden ones and carry 115 tons per 100 tons of wooden ships.
The text touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal female remedy for nervousness, lassitude, dizziness, leucorrhea, backache and other woes. A testimonial from Mus. Joan Ostranders of New York City claims rapid improvement after one bottle, urging other women to try the medicine.
The Senate defeated the tariff bill 33 to 22. The House passed the Indian appropriation bill and the Dingley act authorizing seal protection measures. Contested Missouri election Van Horn vs Tarsney discussed. Cuba topics fueled debates. navy expansion and Arizona land bill proceeded. Presidential veto overridden on Arizona leases. Cuban belligerency resolutions approved. Senate and House details of immigration, salaries, and travel promos appear amid broad legislative and political notes.
A Vienna journal quotes a Shanghai correspondent about a Chinese university modeled after a European system to be established in Tien-Tsin next autumn with Charles D. Tinney as head. The plan includes a preparatory school and several allied schools in North China. Foreign and native teachers will staff the institution, emphasizing technical science.
Professor Alphonse Lafayette, a 55 year old English memory expert who taught memory science in New York City, died in San Francisco last week. He could repeat a column after one read, recite long word lists forward or backward, and perform other startling memory feats.
The harp served as a principal instrument in ancient Egypt and medieval Europe. Egyptian artisans shaped its beauty while British Druids refined tone and pitch, and in 1810 Sebastian Miard elevated it to modern prominence before the piano largely displaced it. The instrument remains linked to Gaelic heritage.
An old ad asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease needing constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co claims to cure every case it falls to cure and offers circulars. The piece notes geographic hat-wearing differences, stating more straw hats are worn in the North than the South.
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